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The Unity Caucus And The Borg Collective.
In the age of accountability, one of the more unaccountable organization is the UFT's "Unity caucus" who controls the union from top to bottom. The "Unity caucus" has ensured that nobody can seriously...
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An Open Letter To Amiee Horowitz From A Discontinued Teacher.
In my previous posts I have written about Superintendent Amiee Horowitz and how she has protected school administrators while going after whistle blowers. If you need a refresher you can find the...
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Why The City's School Renewal Program Is Bullshit!
With much fanfare the NYCDOE has rolled out a plan for the renewal schools to succeed. The plan relies on unrealistic assumptions and clouded by the leftover Bloomberg ideology that staff turnover is...
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City Has A Record Budget Surplus Thanks To The Inferior Contract Negotiated...
It wasn't long ago when UFT President Michael Mulgrew pleaded with the membership to approve a substandard contract claiming the City had a limited amount of funds and if we refused, we would be sent...
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Principals To Avoid In Queens.
Thanks to Gene J Mann of The Organizer who put together the list of the trustworthiness for all Queens principals in the latest school survey, we now can rank each principal on whether they and their...
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Academic Fraud In The New York City High Schools Continues Under Chancellor...
When Carmen Farina took over as Chancellor, many educators hoped for better times led by the UFT leadership. In fact, there appeared to be a blossoming love affair between the Chancellor and UFT...
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The DOE Continues To Deny, Delay, And Defend Academic Fraud.
According to Chalkbeat, Chancellor Carmen Farina has appointed a (yawn) task force to investigate the "credit recovery" programs that is now responsible for anastounding 50% of all credits students...
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The Fault Lies With Chancellor Carmen Farina For Her Failure To Change The...
It seems the "shit has hit the fan" as the New York Post has focused in on the fraudulent graduation rate, with a four day expose of the lengths some schools will take to graduate academically...
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Why The ATR Agreement Is Not What It Seems.
When then UFT President Randi Weingarten shocked the membership and other City unions and agreed to Chancellor's Joel Klein's proposal to not place teachers who were excessed due to closing schools...
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The New York Times Ignores The Real Cause Of The Teacher Shortage.
The New York Times education reporter, Motoko Rich, wrote an article about the national teacher shortage and ignored the real cause of the reason behind the teacher shortage, the demoralization of the...
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Renewal Superintendent Amiee Horowitz Knows Nothing, See's Nothing, And Does...
Here we go again, another renewal school was found to have committed academic fraud. This time its the embattled Flushing High School that has had an astounding 5 principals in five years! Here are...
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What The "Opt Out" Numbers Really Mean?
This week. the NYSED published the latest "opt out"numbers and astonishingly 20% of the State's students"opted out" from taking the test. This was quad-tripled the 2014 "opt out"rate and the...
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My Reflections Of Summer School.
I taught summer school this year and while the students were for the most part, well behaved and cooperative, I did find some real issues how the summer school program was run.First, the summer school...
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Chancellor Carmen Farina's Failure To Clean House At The DOE Has Resulted In...
When Carmen Farina was appointed Chancellor of the New York City public schools, I and many others thought she would "clean house"at the DOE. Yes she did replace some of the top level Klein...
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The Myth Of Charter School Academic Excellence.
If you read the newspapers, the Republican Presidential candidates, and even many Democrats like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Ron Emmanuel, you get the impression the charter schools are the...
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Memo To MaryEllen Elia, Its Unethical To Evaluate Teachers On Junk Science
Last night the new NYSED Commissioner, MaryEllen Elia was the keynote speaker at the education deformer front group, Educators 4 Excellence. During her speech to the 150 member audience (how many were...
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The DOE Claims That Credit Recovery Credits Are Awarded Less Often. Do You...
The DOE has found itself on the defensive as the abuse of the "credit recovery" program resulted in schools ignoring the stringent requirements and offering students an easy way to accumulate credits...
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Parents Overwelmingly Oppose High Stakes Tests To Rate Teachers.
A survey by PDK/Gallup has shown that 64% of public school parents oppose using high stakes tests to determine teacher evaluation. This survey should put to rest the education deformer claim that...
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As Our Union Leadership Supports The De Blasio Administration, The Teachers...
It wasn't too long ago that our union President, Michael (don't call me Mikey) Mulgrew, claimed that we have a supportive ally in the Mayor and a new tone at the DOE. His embrace of the new...
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The Real Legacy Of Ex Chancellor Joel Klein.
According to Politico, the Columbia University's Double Discovery Center will be giving Ex Chancellor Joel Klein their highest award, the James Shenton Award. One would think that such an award would...
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